Motivations
What is Westward Expansion?
The purchase of this piece of land from France doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
State where the Erie Canal construction began
What is New York?
President who warned European countries to stay out of the western hemisphere OR ELSE.
This demographic of people were displaced and removed from their land due to Westward expansion.
Who are Native Americans?
The belief that America was destined by God to expand West to spread American beliefs and culture
What is Manifest Destiny?
The president who purchased the Louisiana Territory
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Length of the Erie Canal
What is 350 miles?
Name of the official American policy that advised European Countries to not interfere with the independent nations and colonies of North and South America
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This demographic of people benefited most from westward expansion due to new economic and job opportunities in unsettled areas.
Who are poor/working/lower-class people?
New technology and transportation advances that made Westward Expansion possible
What is steamboats, canals, or railroads?
The discovery of gold in California that led to mass migration West.
What is the California Gold Rush?
Bodies of water connected by the Erie Canal
What is the Hudson River and Great Lakes?
The president who removed land-owning requirements which allowed all white, male citizens to vote regardless of economic status
This demographic of Americans chose to go on the difficult journey West because they were determined to maintain family unity despite the great potential risks to their health and safety.
Who are women?
The main reason many Americans decided to migrate West
What is land, wealth, money, or economic opportunity?
Territory gained by America after winning the Mexican-American War
California
This innovation boosted the economy by providing various job opportunities in the West and increasing the population of the West
What is the Erie Canal?
Controversial law created by President Andrew Jackson that removed Indians from their native lands and forced them to migrate West in order to "make room" for Americans to purchase land.
What is the Indian Removal Acts?
The journey taken by 60,000 Native American westward after the Indian Removal Act that led to thousands of natives dying of exposure to the elements, malnutrition, various diseases, and sheer physical exhaustion
What is the Trail of Tears?
Law passed by the U.S. government to incentivize people to settle the western territories by offering free land
What is the Homestead Act?
Explorers who were the first Americans to travel and document the new frontier
Lewis and Clark
Governor of New York responsible for building the canal
Who is Governor Clinton?
Native American tribe most impacted by the Indian Removal Acts
What is the Cherokee Nation?
This institution grew as white settlers and farmers expanded West
What is slavery?